what does cultivate mean?
CULTIVATE as VERB
- Meaning
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
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- domesticate oats
- tame the soil
Hypernyms(s) cultivate is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Work the soil
- cultivate the land
Hypernyms(s) cultivate is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
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- Meaning
- train to be discriminative in taste or judgment
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- Cultivate your musical taste
- Train your tastebuds
- She is well schooled in poetry
Hypernyms(s) cultivate is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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